And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music - Couverture rigide

Boyd, Joe

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0571360009 ISBN 13 : 9780571360000

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2024

Synopsis

A Financial Times, Irish Times, Mojo and Uncut Book of the Year

'I doubt I'll ever read a better account of the history and sociology of popular music than this one.' Brian Eno

'Profound.and beyond.' Robert Plant

Legendary producer and record label boss Joe Boyd has spent a lifetime travelling the globe and immersing himself in music. He has witnessed first-hand the growing popularity of music from Africa, India, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe since the 1960s and was one of the protagonists of the 'world music' movement of the 1980s.

In this sweeping history, Boyd sets out to explore the fascinating backstories to these sounds and documents a decade of encounters with the most extraordinary musicians and producers who have altered the course of music for us all.

And the Roots of Rhythm Remain shows how personalities, events and politics in places such as Havana, Lagos, Budapest, Kingston and Rio are as colourful and momentous as anything that took place in New Orleans, Harlem, Laurel Canyon or Liverpool. And, moreover, how jazz, rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll would never have happened if it weren't for the notes and rhythms emanating from over the horizon.

'A gift to the world. Blow your mind and your speakers' Cerys Matthews

'One only hopes that this will be taught in schools.' Ry Cooder

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Joe Boyd is a record producer and writer, known for his memoir, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s. Artists he has produced include Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, R.E.M., Fairport Convention, ¡Cubanismo!, Toots and the Maytals, Toumani Diabaté and Taj Mahal among many over the course of a nearly sixty-year career. As a film producer, his credits include the Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace, Scandal, and Jimi Hendrix.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The definitive study of global music that does for the genre what Alex Ross' The Rest is Noise did for 20th century classical music.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571360009
• ISBN 13: 9780571360000
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 944
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